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Nam, Hyo Jeong & Kim, Sun-Hoi. “An Analysis of English Past Tense Form Processing: Focusing on the Experimental Result of Acceptability Judgment of Nonce Word Past Tense Forms by Non-native Speakers.” Studies in English Language & Literature. 43.1 (2017): 243-269. The aim of this study was to investigate which is more adequate between the dual system model and the single system model for the processing of English past tense forms through the acceptability judgement experiment of nonce word past tense forms by Korean university students, the non-native learners of English. 41 English nonce words were chosen from Albright & Hayes(2003), and 85 Korean university students rated the acceptability of their regular and irregular past tense forms using a 7-point scale. To analyze the data statistically, mixed effects linear regression models were fitted to the data. Like English L1 adults and older children (9-10 years) (Albright & Hayes 2003, Ambridge 2010), the participants classified as highly proficient non-native learners of English exhibited the significant effect of phonological similarity to existing verbs on the acceptability of both regular and irregular past tense forms. This result shows that the single system model is more adequate in explaining the processing of English past tense forms. (Chung-Ang University)